https://www.noted.co.nz/tech/youtubes-paedophile-problem-only-small-part-of-internets-issue-child-sexual-abuse/ Recent investigations by Wired and video blogger Matt Watson have alleged that paedophiles were using the site’s comments section to leave predatory messages on videos containing and uploaded by children, and to share links to child sexual abuse material. In response to the investigations – and the threat of an advertiser boycottContinue Reading

https://www.theverge.com/2017/11/15/16656706/youtube-videos-children-comments The video, posted to YouTube in September, was innocuous enough. Part of a regularly updated series, it showed two young girls, seemingly about nine years old, practicing gymnastics. The 10-minute clip, filmed by an adult, was the kind of low-fidelity, homemade footage that YouTube was built on. But manyContinue Reading